Wednesday, April 29, 2009

To Kill a Mockingbird Blog

Check out Elaine Carboni's blog on To Kill a Mockingbird. She created this site for her 8th grade students at St. Gabriel in Philadelphia. It can be found at:
http://www.carboni304.ning.com

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

MERIT Workshop 4/29

Expand Your Horizons with Web 2.0


 

PODCASTS

Education Podcast Network http://epnweb.org/


 

Podcasting: Just the Facts http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/


 

Overview of Podcasting http://chatt.hdsb.ca/~magps/boylit/Podcasting%20in%20Education


 

Radio WillowWeb http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/


 

Learning in Hand http://learninginhand.com/podcasting/


 

Podcsting Booklet (FREE) http://learninginhand.com/podcasting/booklet.html


 

Podcasting Examples http://www.mrcoley.com/coleycast/index.htm


 

Discovery Channel Podcasts http://www.discovery.com/radio/podcasts.html


 

NPR Podcasts http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php


 

Our City Podcast http://learninginhand.com/OurCity/index.html


 

K12 Handhelds http://www.k12handhelds.com/podcasting.php


 

iTunes U http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/


 

BLOGS

Blogger https://www.blogger.com/start         ePals http://www.epals.com/


 

Penguin Books Blog http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/blogs/index.php


 

Word Press http://wordpress.org/             Classroom Blog http://21classes.com/


 

Blogs of Room 12 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=41233


 

MERIT blog http://teachershavemerit.blogspot.com/


 


 

SOCIAL SPACES

Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com/         http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers            http://eduwikius.wikispaces.com/     School 2.0 http://school20.wikispaces.com/


 

Wet Paint http://www.wetpaint.com/             Twitter http://twitter.com/


 

Student Writing Models http://thewritesource.com/studentmodels/


 

Young Adult Publishing http://www.merlynspen.org/


 

Stone Soup http://www.stonesoup.com/writing-by-children/


 

Yahoo Buzz http://buzz.yahoo.com/submit/


 

RESOURCES


 

Video http://www.teachertube.com
http://www.unitedstreaming.com
http://www.teachersdomain.org/     Poetry http://www.teachersdomain.org/special/pe08-ex/


 

Powerpoints http://www.worldofteaching.com/


 

Presentation Tool http://prezi.com/


 

Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/


 

Garage Band http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/


 

MIT Open Coursewhere http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm


 

Nortel Learn It http://nortellearnit.org/


 

Web 3.0 http://computer.howstuffworks.com/web-30.htm/printable


 

    

MERIT is a staff development program serving the nonpublic schools in Philadelphia. We have a number of consultants as well as a phenomenal Make and Take Center. Please let us know how we can serve you.